Higher Trivia Quiz

Answer: Quality

Quality is the measure of how good something is. If something is low quality it is not very good. If something is high quality it is good.

If one thing is lower quality than something else it is not as good as the other one.

If something is higher quality than something else it is better than the thing it is being compared to.

Example: One CD player may be higher quality than another because the speakers are both good while the other one's speakers are a little fuzzy.

The one with good speakers is high quality while the one with fuzzy speakers is low quality.

Answer: Control

Control is the power over an operation. If you have control over an airplane than you are driving it correctly. If it is out of control than the plane may be doing something it's not supposed to and you don't have control over it.

Companies that produce different products have a department called quality control. Quality control is the part of a company that makes sure that their product maintains its quality. Companies have a quality control team that inspect their products to make sure that everything is at the minimum quality required by the company or better. If companies didn't have this, their products could lose their quality without the company knowing it.

Answer: Room

Different rooms in a house include bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens and dining rooms.

Companies have a room called the control room. A control room is the room that contains the controls to all parts of an operation or corporation. In a store it can contain the monitors to the security cameras which the guards watch to make sure everything is going OK in the store. In a music recording studio it contains the sound board which controls the volume of the instrument(s) being recorded.

Answer: Key

Locks and keys are used for a lot of things. Doors, safes, filing cabinets and gates, among others, have locks and keys used for security.

A room key is a key that opens a hotel room. People who rent hotel rooms keep their room keys with them so they can get into their room at all times. Some hotels have a card that serves as the room key. The doors have a device on them that when you stick the card into the slot and pull it out automatically unlocks a door.

Some locks, such as combination locks, don't require a key. You just turn a dial until you get to the combination of numbers that allows the lock to come open.

Answer: Ring

Rings are worn to signify several things including marriage, engagement, purity, friendship, a promise between a couple in a relationship, and other things.

A key ring is a ring that people hook keys onto to keep their keys together. Some people will hook key ring onto other key ring so as to keep their keys sorted by building, room or vehicle.

Answer: Master

The master of an operation is the person in charge. In a company the master of the operation makes sure everything is in order.

A ringmaster is the master of one ring at a circus or animal show. He keeps everything in order and announces the acts.

Answer: Volume

In mathematics, the volume of a cube or cylinder is the measure of the entire inside of the container from top to bottom, left to right, front to back.

Volume is also the measure of how loud a sound is. In a band the volume of an instrument is how loud it is. The master volume is the volume of all of the instruments on a CD or in a concert. It doesn't control each one individually, just all of them together.

Answer: Pedal

Pedals are used for a lot of things. On a bicycle you push the pedals forward with your feet and it makes the bicycle move.

In a band they use a pedal to control the volume of an instrument by the player of that instrument. Guitarists can use it to turn up their guitars for a solo and then turn it back down afterwards without worrying about getting to the knob on the guitar while playing. They also have distortion pedals that add distortion to the sound of the guitar.

Answer: Box

Boxes have a lot of uses. You can put things in them to ship them somewhere else or store them.

A pedal box is a box used to carry pedals that control different sound on a guitar. Different kinds of pedals in a pedal box include distortion pedals, delay pedals and wah-wah pedals among others. It makes setting up easier because you don't have to set up each one individually.

Answer: top

The top of a mountain is the highest point of it. The top of a box is the highest point of a box. There was a program called 'box tops' which put a cut out picture on the tops of boxes of various foods. People would cut out the picture and then send them to their local school and the school would send it to General Mills and would get some money in return for them. It helped cover the costs of school supplies and utility bills.